About Us

Kevin A. Anderson is Founder & CEO of Cardinal Atlantic Holdings, an economic and community development firm targeting scaled social impact and investment in urban centers. With specializations in real estate and education technology, CAH advises funds, corporations and governments on economic and community development strategy and projects. 

Anderson previously served as Senior Vice President for Global Partnerships at EVERFI, Inc., an educational software company for financial literacy and life skills education where he led government relations and conducted business development. Anderson helped create and launch the company’s diversity content while securing public and corporate partnerships to support digital innovation in school districts across America. A SaaS company, Anderson helped lead EVERFI’s growth from 32 employees to over 600, and from $6mm in revenue to over $120mm during his tenure. 

Before joining EVERFI, Anderson was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of City First Homes, Inc. - a $6 million community land trust created to support workforce housing and ensure ongoing affordability for working families in the District of Columbia. Launched in 2008 as the District’s most aggressive affordable housing initiative, City First Homes navigated the financial crisis stabilizing mixed income  development and created over 100 units of affordable housing. 

Prior to his appointment at City First Homes, Anderson was Chief Financial Officer and Vice President for Equity Capital at the Jair Lynch Companies, Inc., a for-profit real estate and community development firm in Washington, D.C. He was responsible for the financial management of JLC’s public, corporate and real estate ventures. Anderson helped establish JLC’s initial investment fund, a $120 million facility for commercial and  housing development in the DMV region. 

In 2000, Anderson served in Washington, D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams’ administration as Special Assistant to the City Administrator and Chief of Staff at the D.C. Department of Transportation. He helped  usher an era of accountability and transparency in city operations and managed the restructuring of DDOT to a cabinet-level agency. Anderson led the hiring of over 100 new employees, the establishment of a local trust fund for street and infrastructure maintenance and implementation of performance metrics to meet citizen needs. Mayor Anthony A. Williams proclaimed March 31, 2004 “Kevin Anderson Day” in the District of Columbia. 

Anderson began his professional career at the investment banking firm of Pryor, McClendon, Counts & Co., Inc. in Philadelphia, PA as an Institutional Bond Salesman. He served pension funds, insurance companies, investment advisers, and money center banks. Anderson provided coverage for PMC’s landmark financings as lead manager for the $320 million Atlanta Hartsfield Airport financing and the $390 million Denver Airport financing. 

Anderson is the former Chairperson of the NEA Foundation’s Board of Directors (National Education Association), and recently completed 19 years of service on the Board of Trustees of Lawrence Academy. He is a member of Leadership Greater Washington’s Class of 2006 and Leadership Prince George’s Class of 2008. Anderson has held and holds professional licenses and designations in securities trading, commodity futures trading, and economic development finance. He has also prepared financial reports for expert testimony in D.C. Superior Court and local jurisdictions.  

A native of Washington, D.C., Anderson graduated from Lawrence Academy in Groton, MA. He holds a BA in Economics from Stanford University, and has completed finance, leadership, and executive education at the JFK School of Government at Harvard University, and the National Development Council. Anderson lives in Upper Marlboro, MD with his wife, The Honorable Tiffany H. Anderson, daughter, Kendall, and twin sons, Kennedy and Kolby.

Mouna Aissaoui has more than 15 years of international food importing, manufacturing and commercializing experience. She started her career working for Overseas Food Trading in New Jersey. During her ten years there, she managed international suppliers, aided with new product development and supported sales and customer service on key accounts such as Costco, Whole Foods, Walmart, Target, Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s. She later joined Pompeian, a century-old Baltimore-based olive oil brand, to be the chief operating officer.

Dr. James Albrecht is a founding member of WTCI. He has contributed to the organization in many ways, including being the lead sponsor of and brains behind two fellowship programs – one for high school students and one for college students. The programs reflect his lifelong commitment to youth education and global issues. Before retiring in 1998, he worked as a leader in the food industry for more than 40 years, including at McCormick & Company.

Carol Dalton has more than 25 years of experience in corporate banking. She is a senior vice president of M&T Bank and the senior manager for the bank's National and International Banking Divisions. Within M&T Bank, she serves as a rotating member of the Managers Loan Committee. Additionally, she has served or is currently serving on the following committees: Commercial Deposit Advisory, Commercial Service Advisory, Commercial Technology Review and Commercial Management. Carol is a graduate of Emory University, where she earned her bachelors of business administration in finance.

Elizabeth (Beth) Dolce currently leads the financial planning, commercial management, and business operations teams of Ciena Corporation’s Blue Planet Software division and is a member of Blue Planet’s senior leadership team.  In this role, she is responsible for all planning activities, negotiation and pricing of customer contracts, and divisional financial reporting and controls. She also leads a team responsible for designing and supporting a variety of operational processes to support sales, product management, and the services delivery teams- and has advised in the structure and strategy of this division, including the acquisition and integration of three businesses, since its inception in 2015.  

 Beth joined Ciena Corporation in July 2010 as the Vice President and Treasurer prior to moving to the Blue Planet Division.  As Treasurer, she has global oversight and responsibility for the Company’s debt, cash, investments, banking and liquidity, where she led several capital markets transactions and arranged the company’s first bank and term loan credit facilities.  Ms. Dolce also managed the Company’s risk management programs, including foreign exchange, insurance and enterprise risk and served on Ciena’s Corporate Compliance and various Pension and Investment Committees.   

Prior to joining Ciena, Ms. Dolce was the Assistant Treasurer and Risk Manager at The Black and Decker Corporation in Towson, Maryland.  She has over 20 years of experience in corporate finance, having held positions in treasury and capital markets, investor relations, business development and corporate banking at companies such as Cablevision Systems in Bethpage, New York, General Motors’ Treasurer’s Office in New York City, and Bank of America in New York City. 

Ms. Dolce holds a M.B.A. from The University of Michigan Ross School of Business and a B.S. in Economics from the University of Delaware.  She is a graduate of the Leadership Baltimore Country program and served on the board of directors of the non-profit New Pathways, Inc.  She is currently engaged as Ciena’s executive sponsor with the Building STEPS organization.  She lives with her husband and two children in Forest Hill, Maryland and enjoys spending time traveling, hiking, and kayaking.   

Kathleen Flanagan has served as president and CEO since 2009. Prior to assuming this position, she launched an international workforce and education practice, winning projects from such entities as United States Agency for International Development, The World Bank and the United States. Department of Labor. In addition to serving on the WTCI board, she is a board member of the Professional Services Council, the Massachusetts Women’s Forum and the CEO Forum of the Washington D.C. Chapter of the Society for International Development.

Tabata Gomez has worked at Stanley, Black and Decker since 2017. Before moving into her current role in early 2022, she served as a chief marketing officer for two years and a vice president of marketing for two years. She has a wide range of international business knowledge and experience, particularly related to the Americas, Europe and Asia. She has been recognized for her ability to guide organizations through change while considering competitive pressures, market expansion and evolving landscapes. 

Heather Kiriakou has been in her current role since May 2021. Prior to that, Heather led MS International Strategic Development for the company. From 2016-19, she served as the director of global business development in the Northrop Grumman Corporate office, leading the company’s assessment of geopolitical, economic and industry trends to inform C-suite decisions on the company’s future positioning. She also has worked in Northrop Grumman’s Aerospace Systems in a strategy, government relations and business development role. Prior to Northrop Grumman, Heather worked for 15 years in the United States intelligence community. She was the lead author of the country’s first National Strategy to Combat Terrorist Travel and completed a legislative affairs fellowship in the U.S. Senate, in which she focused on Middle East policy issues. Heather served as a visiting fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.

Dr. Leslie Mancuso has more than 25 years of experience in developing public and private partnerships with various organizations, such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Chevron, ExxonMobil, GE Foundation, GlaxoSmithKline, Laerdal Medical and Merck. She is a recognized international business leader specializing in bringing accountability to and navigating changes in the international nonprofit sector. In addition to serving on the WTCI board, she serves on the boards of US-ASEAN Business Council, Inc., where she is acting Chair of the Health and Life Science Working Group, and Life Science Innovation Forum of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Organization.

Marc Pritchard believes in the power of brands to serve people with the best performing products, while also being a force for good through ethics and responsibility, community impact, diversity and inclusion, gender equality and environmental sustainability. He has more than 20 years of experience in the Beauty and Personal Care categories. As chief brand officer, he is responsible for brand building disciplines worldwide, including marketing and advertising strategies, leading marketing innovations and brand building for an extensive portfolio of clients.

Tammy Ridgley has more than 20 years of experience working in the constantly changing wireless technology industry. She works closely with the best global suppliers in the world to build strong partnerships, go-to market strategies, solutions and services to the commercial market. Prior to assuming her current position, she held several leadership positions in sales, program management and product management.

Tchernavia Rocker has been chief administrative officer at Under Armour since June 2020. Prior to that, she served as chief people and culture officer from February 2019 to May 2020. Prior to joining the company, she served more than 18 years in human resources leadership roles at Harley-Davidson, Inc., most recently as vice president and chief human resources officer from June 2016 through January 2019, as general manager of human resources from January 2012 through May 2016 and in various other human resources leadership positions since joining the company in 2000. She also served in various human resources and operations roles at Goodyear, Dunlop and North America Tire Inc.

Sylvia Toense is a Vice President at T. Rowe Price.  Mrs. Toense is the Global Head of Institutional Marketing for T. Rowe Price Global Investment Services, the organization responsible for the firm’s institutional business worldwide.

Sylvia has extensive experience in a range of marketing initiatives including strategic planning, branding, advertising, research, creative, and client communications.  Prior to joining the firm in 2007, she held various marketing roles at Legg Mason including director of marketing for the private client business before it was sold to Citigroup/Smith Barney and more recently director of corporate marketing.  Previously, she held marketing and investor relations positions at Dynex Financial and its predecessor firms, as well as the Nasdaq Stock Market. 

Sylvia has an undergraduate degree in Communications from the University of Texas at Austin and a Masters in Business – Finance concentration from Johns Hopkins University and attended the Securities Industry Institute at The Wharton School.

T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. has over 60 years of investment management experience with US$400 billion in assets under management for institutional and individual investors worldwide as of 31 December 2007.

T. Rowe Price is focused exclusively on investment management and related services. It is a publicly traded company on NASDAQ and included in the S&P 500 Index. It has offices in Amsterdam, Baltimore, Buenos Aires, Colorado Springs, Copenhagen, Hong Kong, London, Luxembourg, San Francisco, Singapore, Stockholm, Sydney, Tampa, Toronto and Tokyo.

Krish is the President and CEO of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service. She previously served in the Obama White House as Policy Director for First Lady Michelle Obama and at the State Department as Senior Advisor under Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Secretary of State John Kerry.

Krish has committed her career to public service because she knows how differently life could have turned out. Krish was 9-months old when she and her family escaped a country on the brink of civil war and built a life in Maryland. Her parents came to this country with no jobs and $200 in their pockets.

Krish is a graduate from Woodlawn High School in Baltimore County and then attended Yale College, where she earned a Master’s degree in Political Science and a B.S. in Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology, graduating magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. She was a Marshall Scholar at Oxford University, where she received an M.Phil. in International Relations, before returning to Yale Law School, where she served on the Yale Law Journal.

Krish’s interest in public service and grassroots politics began at an early age. In elementary school, Krish went knocking door to door with her mother in support of Senator Barbara Mikulski when she won her historic first race for the Senate. In college, Krish worked for another great public servant when she spent her summer back from college working for Senator Paul Sarbanes.

At the White House, Krish served as Policy Director for Michelle Obama and led the First Lady’s signature Let Girls Learn initiative. At the State Department, she coordinated development and implementation of multiple programs including those concerning refugees and migration, engagement with religious communities, the legal dimensions of U.S. foreign policy, and regional issues relating to Africa and the Middle East.  She worked closely with USAID, Health & Human Services and the Department of Defense.

Before joining the White House, Krish practiced law at Jenner & Block in Washington, DC, clerked for Chief Judge Michael Boudin on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and taught at Georgetown University as an adjunct. She has been recognized as one of The Daily Record’s “Top 100 Women” and serves on the Advisory Committee of the American Bar Association’s Commission on Immigration.

Krish and her husband, Collin O’Mara are the parents of a young daughter, Alana.

William Doyle was appointed by Maryland Governor Larry Hogan as the executive director of the Maryland Port Administration in 2020. He oversees and manages the Helen Delich Bentley Port of Baltimore’s six state-owned, public marine terminals. The marine terminals handle autos, breakbulk, containers, cruise, farm and construction equipment and forest products. The Port of Baltimore is one of the busiest seaports in the United States.

Previously, Bill was the CEO and executive director for the Dredging Contractors of America, a non-profit trade association that represents the interests of the U.S. dredging and marine construction industry. He developed the organization’s first formal continuing strategic plan and crafted legislative initiatives in conjunction with the White House and Congress that resulted in securing more than $2 billion for harbor maintenance dredging, deepening, widening, coastal restoration and beach nourishment for the association’s membership.

He served for five years as a Federal Maritime Commissioner. He was nominated and then re-nominated by President Barack Obama and he also served under President Donald Trump. He also has served as chief of staff for the Marine Engineers Beneficial Association and a director of the Office of the Federal Coordinator for Alaska Natural Gas Transportation Projects.

Ricky Smith has led management and operations for the Baltimore Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport for six he was appointed to that role by Governor Larry Hogan in 2015. A 29-year veteran of the transportation industry, Ricky has restored BWI as the busiest airport in the region and one of the Top 10 National Airports for Customer Experience. He established a culture of performance, safety and innovation at the airport.

He also has created a community centered around the airport. In 2015, Ricky established the BWI Marshall Youth Initiative to introduce Baltimore City youths to careers in aviation and transportation. In 2017, the LaunchPad program was started to uplift minority-owned micro-businesses by creating opportunities to participate in the thriving BWI food and retail scene. Outside the airport, he served as chair of the Mayor’s Commission on African American Males and president of Black Professional Men, Inc.

Deborah (Deb) Kielty is a global business leader and strategic advisor with operational and strategic leadership experience in the private and non-profit sectors. She became the WTCI president and executive director in 2001 and served in that role until 2019. In 2022, she was named WTCI’s first president emeritus. Prior to joining WTCI, Deb climbed the brand management ranks at Procter & Gamble over a 20-year period, culminating as vice president of global alliances and licensing. Deb is the board chair of the P&G Alumni Foundation and serves on the board of advisors for Jhpiego and Baltimore Outreach Services. he holds a master’s degree in international management from the Thunderbird School of Global Management.

Henry A. Rosenberg, Jr. is chair emeritus of the Board of Rosemore, Inc., and had served as chairman and co-chairman since 1999. He was previously chairman, president, and CEO of Rosemore’s subsidiary, Crown Central Petroleum, for nearly 40 years.

In addition to his business ventures, Henry is well known for his involvement in local non-profit and philanthropic communities. He has served in leadership positions on the boards of numerous local and national organizations, including the Boy Scouts of America, the National Aquarium in Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Health System, the McDonogh School, Hobart College, Goucher College, the Kennedy Krieger Institute, the United Way of Maryland and the Pride of Baltimore.